Emotional Stress and Heart Disease: Clinical Recognition and Assessment

  • K. McIntyre
  • C. Jenkins
Chapter

Summary

The authors review recognition of the stressed individual, the stressors and, to the extent possible, the individual with cardiovascular responses to stress which raise the risks of acute CHD endpoints.

Keywords

Coronary Heart Disease Sudden Cardiac Death Sleep Problem Status Incongruity Sleep Difficulty 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • K. McIntyre
    • 1
  • C. Jenkins
    • 2
  1. 1.Harvard University School of Public HealthBostonUSA
  2. 2.University of Texas Medical BranchGalvestonUSA

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